Let's say I just recently installed react-native-gifted-chat from npm, and I realized there is another package inside it, how do I access uuid package in that package?
this is inside my node_module folder:
Regularly we just do import ... from 'react-native-gifted-chat', to access package but how to access uuid package inside react-native-gifted-chat without installing uuid package?
The question is: Why do you want this?
I believe that the correct approach should be to depend on uuid directly, if you actually depend on it.
There is no guarantee that future versions of react-native-gifted-chat will depend on uuid, or depend on a version that has the same interface you're expecting.
Also, I believe that npm makes some effort to deduplicate the same versions of packages depended on by multiple things, so you shouldn't concern yourself overly about disk space.
well, I think the best way is to install the wanted packages as new separate packages with npm, because maybe in the future, the devs of react-native-gifted-chat may stop depending on that package, and you will get errors that may drive you crazy before realizing the mistake you have done, so you better install uuid as a new dependency in your project so you will never have to worry about it being removed from react-native-gifted-chat.
Hope i was clear, thanks
